Topic: Help ID Vaseline Glass Lemonade / Water Jug and Glass

[mhgcgolfclub]

Please help ID this Art Deco looking jug and glass. I cannot remember seeing this pattern before .

I thought it looked similar in shape to the Sowerby jug and glasses which are seen a lot.

Textured body with squares in relief which can look diamond in shape depending on the angle.

Glows brightly under a UV light.

Height of jug 19cm weight 1260 gm

Height of glass 10cm weight 180 gm

Thanks Roy

[glassobsessed]

Assuming that Nancy is correct, Libochovice: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,46883.0.html

John

[flying free]

It is Libochovice.  I have a very glowy fruit bowl in this pattern. 
m

[uphoosier]

Just wondering.  Here in the States, we have a little saying; " If it's green, it ain't vaseline."  It reminds us vaseline glass is yellow, like the product it takes its name from, and glows green.  Does this definition hold in Europe as well?

[flying free]

Interesting - I read vaseline as meaning Uranium glass.  My fruit bowl is this pattern and green and uranium glass.  I personally wouldn't call it vaseline glass but I thought that is what uranium glass was called in the States.
m

[chopin-liszt]

I just avoid the use of the word vaseline in glass.
But if I read that something was described vaseline, I would expect it to contain uranium and opalescent glass, and be cloudy-clear mix of that and yellow. To look like the product Vaseline.

[Lustrousstone]

I avoid the use of the word at all because in Europe there is no real definition. People often also use it with whitish translucentish stuff, i.e., like modern Vaseline rather than the yellow stuff they used to produce.

[chopin-liszt]

It's a slippery subject, isn't it? 

[mhgcgolfclub]

Thanks John and m for the ID.

The set does glow very well under a UV light

Thanks Roy 

[Anne]

1 litre jug is pattern number 1449, 1/2 litre tumblers are pattern number 1445. Both shown in the pre-1958 Libochovice catalogue on the CD that comes with Marcus Newhall's book, Sklo Union Art Before Industry, 20th Century Czech Pressed Glass. Roy, the catalogue only gives capacities not the dimensions, so you'll need to check against yours.